When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we… — Mattias Klum Copy Share Image
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light. — Lola Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training,… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“The sun creates your shadow; the mirror takes your shadow into itself; if you take a photo of the mirror, your shadow… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities. — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
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